A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheScience arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTranslators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheArtists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe